[Libosinfo] [PATCH 3/4] gnome: Add info for gnome-continuous 3.12

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 07:55:25PM +0000, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 04:22:03PM +0000, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> >> Sure but there is nothing stopping you from doing that. If you got a
> >> 3.12 image at the time of 3.18, Boxes (or any app) should be about to
> >> tell that it is a 3.12 image and not a 3.18 one.
> >
> > How would the detection work?
> 
> Not in a simple and nice way, I'm afraid. I convinced Colin to add
> date to the filename and I have unmerged patches to Boxes that
> compares the date on the file to that in the gnome OS entries:
> 

As you said in
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libosinfo/2013-November/msg00066.html ,
this date based detection is going to be inaccurate around stable release
time (we'll know gnome-continuous switched to the next development release
around that date, but we won't know for sure exactly when). Wouldn't it
be possible to use GNOME Shell or GNOME $something version as the base for
the current GNOME version? This would mean some fuseiso games, but could be
more accurate. This would also let us remove the version/release date from
the libosinfo GNOME continuous metadata.

Christophe
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